Chumby gets retrofitted into retro telephone, will soon make collect calls

We've seen the elusive Chumby hidden behind all sorts of facades before, but this one is probably the most heartwarming yet. The brilliant minds at MAKE have figured out a way to retrofit the highly tweakable gizmo into an old school telephone, putting all sorts of web-connected widgets at your fingertips while keeping that blast-from-the-past flair in tact. Sadly, it cannot yet make or receive calls, but what's stopping you from taking this same project on and making sure that functionality remains in tact? Nothing, that's what.

[Thanks, Gerry]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 12:20AM]

that's sweet
and I love the chumby sticker they added on top

[OneLove Posted Jan 19th 2009 11:29AM]

I get a chumby just thinking about it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 12:35AM]

It looks like one of those phones that's a direct line to the president.

[Prokanda2oh Posted Jan 19th 2009 12:37AM]

*intact /fixed

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 12:49AM]

A rotary phone would have been bad ass. IF you dont know what a rotary phone is, then click this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_phone

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 1:01AM]

umm...wat is chumby???

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 7:42AM]

Hi, and welcome to the internet!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 1:02AM]

wow, thats really a neat job!

cool you can make skype call!!

[bohoy2k Posted Jan 19th 2009 1:09AM]

flippin' awesome ^_^

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 1:15AM]

With all due seriousness, 6 tentacles! excuse me! ......That octopus must be the weirdest of its kind.

[scolen2 Posted Jan 19th 2009 1:22AM]

ROTFony?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 2:11AM]

"With all due seriousness, 6 tentacles! excuse me! ......That octopus must be the weirdest of its kind."

That's because it's a Sexapus!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 3:21AM]

its so sweet, my grandmother will love it!



hahahaha...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 5:25AM]

I don´t know where you´re getting the Frank E. Yost name from. This is Daniel Gentleman´s aka Thoughtfix´s work. http://tabletblog.com/2008/11/chumby-hack-published-in-make-vol-16.html

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 19th 2009 10:10AM]

Is this phone "bell system property"?

[Mr Morgan Posted Jan 19th 2009 12:44PM]

umm. am i the only one who just doesn't care.... great.. you did a crappy job cutting up a phone and stuffing a next to useless (but hackable.. omfg ponies!!!!#$()*#($*.. it's hackable.. did i tell you that.. it's hackable. oh my god.. it's really hackable. they finally made a pillow with a screen)#*$() AND THEY MADE IT HACKABLE SO I COULD STUFF IT INTO AN OLD PHONE)(*$)#*$)#(*$)(*)) toy.